John Paul Martinez is a Filipino-Canadian poet writing out of an isthmus in Wisconsin. His desert-island book would be either The Difficult Farm by Heather Christle or The Language Book edited by Bruce Andrews and Charles Bernstein. He holds a BA in Linguistics from the University of Wisconsin—Madison and can be further found on Twitter @jpmpoet or at johnpaulmartinez.com.

Cover image by Zachary Schomburg: photos of walls in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, an area that is very flat. The horizon lines on theses walls mimic that flat horizon line on its landscape.